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One of the good things about a holiday is the chance to be aimless. One hears so much talk about the importance of goals and targets and focus, particularly in my line of work, one quite forgets the joy and value of surrendering and letting things just happen. Just floating round on a lilo in […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 9:

Some of the trees in the garden are over grown with purple bindweed, or columbine. The colour is absolutely exquisiteite and it always draws my eye. I find it odd that something so fabulous could be considered a weed; I’d happily plant it at home if it would grow there. It is odd, when you […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 8:

I thought I was going to be writing about the change in weather today; for the first time we have clouds blowing in over the mountains, and it didn’t seem to promise a good day for sun-bathing. Our new routine was going to have to be changed. However, this minor meteorological event has been over […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 7:

I was floating in the pool on a lilo and thinking what an insubstantial thing it was to keep me afloat, just a little bit of flimsy plastic and a puff of air, and yet it was all that I needed to feel safe and supported. Sometimes a little support goes mighty long way, and […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 6:

Isn’t strange how we go on holiday to get away from the old rhythms and routines, and within a matter of days we have built up a whole new set? Family is no exception and the days have begun to acquire familiar pattern of what and where we eat, when we rise and what we […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 5:

Somehow the light is different here and the colours seem not just more exotic but brighter too. We have the most incredible purple Morning Glory in the garden and the lemons that just seem so lemony. It is odd to be seeing not just new sights but also seeing things differently too. Often our ability […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 4:

Families are wondrous and complex structures: where else could you be abused three times before breakfast and not be mortally offended? As humans we all have a distorted self image of ourselves, we are both better than and less than the pictures we carry in our heads. Families see this all and help redress the […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 3: Abuse before Breakfast:

We wandered into the town today and discovered that the centre had become one huge market, full of all sorts of lovely trinkets. We found the square heaving with people but wandered off into the back streets and found a lovely little local style bar and sat in the shade drinking cold beer and eating […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 2

So Family Cooke has decamped to Majorca for a week. We had never been here before, and had heard tales of what appeared to two different places. There was the tacky nasty MaJawKa, that was full of drunken tourists screwing and dancing themselves silly and this green and beautiful Mediterranean refuge. Happily we are firmly […][...] read more » Majorcan Blog No 1